But he had to stop himself cross-questioning the policewoman, and he had to order himself not to ask Don to pull in at every roadside phone box so he could call DCI Westland to ask if he had made an arrest yet.

Crown advocate would never have acted as these Frenchmen have done; the latter inflaming the public mind by exaggerated appeals to their passions: the former seeking, in every way, to draw confessions from the prisoner, to perplex and confound him, to do away, by fierce cross-questioning and bitter remarks from the bench, with any effect that his testimony might have on the jury.